With loving greetings from all souls at this station, this is Matthew. We thank everyone who expressed appreciation for our explanation of ascension from this vantage point, and we want to share one reader’s delightful perspective:

“Ascension (to me) is like being the best that you can be….whatever that is!!! If you dance, be the best dancer. If you sing, be the best singer. If you garden, be the best gardener. If you paint, be the best painter. Be the best that you can be!!! By being the best that you can be you are restoring your soul (energy – inner chi life force) and raising your vibrational frequency… This little light of mine. I’m gonna let it shine!!!

“I think the main content that needs to be reiterated is, ‘Stop looking outside of yourself for answers. Go within!!!’ The answers are inside. Connect with your heart, which is a powerful, divine organ.”

Indeed! Often we have urged you to heed your intuition, messages to the consciousness from the soul, wherein all truth is known; and in one of God’s talks with my mother, He told her, “The heart is the seat of the soul.” The composition of the soul is the energy of love and it is in the heart area where the love sensation is felt. It’s with good reason that you say “I love you with all my heart” and add little heart symbols to love notes and send heart-embellished valentines to people especially dear to you.

“Very informative and thank you so much. What I still don’t understand is where The Golden Age fits in [ascension]. Or does it?” Oh yes, absolutely it fits in. Imagine Earth’s ascension as a train that completely encircles the globe and its passengers as souls on their own ascension journey. About 80 years ago this train started inching along in virtual darkness and everyone got aboard. Throughout the decades since then, the train picked up steam as it traveled around and around the world, infants got on and people of all ages got off, and Earth became brighter and brighter. This train/passenger trip will continue until Earth is brilliantly agleam and the glories of her Golden Age are in full bloom—this is the train’s destination. Passengers still on board may stay at that station briefly or for a century or more, but they and every other soul who rode on the train as it kept circumnavigating the planet will continue their personal journey to reintegrate with the Supreme Being of this universe.

That is the best analogy we could think of to show the relationship between that sublime Age and planetary and personal ascension, but there is more to the story. Some of the passengers advanced spiritually and consciously from third density to fourth before they disembarked to enter Nirvana; others did not, but the train ride was only one of limitless opportunities for them to reach that milestone. The train is going to keep on traveling into increasingly high vibrations and all passengers who use those to their benefit may decide to return to Earth after a lifetime in spirit or go to another wondrous world of their choice. Regardless of when or where souls choose to experience lifetimes on their way to universal reintegration, the ultimate destination of all is the love-light essence of Creator, where they always have been and ever more shall be.

As for what you can do to help “speed up” your ascension and Earth’s, we say: Live your light, live from your heart, LOVE is the key. Light and love are the same energy and the most powerful force in the cosmos; therefore, feeling love/sending light are one and the same and the acme of ascension assistance. Being compassionate, grateful, forgiving, generous, kind and honest emits the high vibrations that light up your life and add light to your world. Feeling confident and optimistic about your future and Earth’s helps manifest what corresponds with the energy put forth and visualizing all of Earth immersed in golden white light sends that radiance into the collective consciousness, the so-called “universal soup” from which everything in your world is materialized.

“Please ask Matthew if baptism has any effect on the ascension process.” Not a whit. Making baptism a mandated religious rite was done by the leaders of church and state to give them more control over the populace. That said, belief creates a person’s reality, and if that includes baptism as a requirement for “going to heaven” and that is equated with ascension, the reality for that person is, yes, baptism is an essential aspect of ascension.

As much as we wish that politics no longer held our beloved Earth family in its grasp, it still does, and we don’t want to ignore the many requests from readers everywhere for us to speak about US Presidents Obama and Trump and Russian President Putin, whose actions have impact far beyond their national borders. As we address your questions and comments, please remember what we have said in previous messages: We are apolitical, judge no one, and unconditionally love all our brothers and sisters on Earth.

Barack Obama is as light-filled today as he was when Gaia chose this soul to become US president at what would have been the right time for a visionary leader with spiritual and moral integrity to inspire the peoples to live in progressively enlightened ways. The timing, your year 2008, was aligned with what the Golden Age master planners anticipated would correspond with the civilization’s readiness in spiritual and conscious awareness. However, some years prior to the turn of the century, souls who had agreed to create circumstances to provide karmic lessons chosen by the masses, then join the light forces, refused to honor the latter part of their agreement. Having become enamored of unbridled power and vast riches, they continued causing such devastation and violence on their march toward world domination that it caused a 10-year delay in the peoples’ advancing to that anticipated awareness status.

Thus, Obama entered office when divisiveness, bigotry, greed, deception, corruption, violence, impoverishment and war mentality still were rampant. By keeping that third density pot boiling, the Illuminati were able to derail or dilute everything he wanted to do for his country and the world, and he made compromises or complied with their demands because of death threats to his family and primary supporters. It is a sadness for him that he couldn’t do more for his country and help usher in a world at peace during his presidency, and his motivation remains strong to continue working toward those goals that are Gaia’s vision for Earth’s humankind.

It was not by predestination that Donald Trump became president and it wasn’t a karmic experience he chose in his soul contract. The contract does include positive assets—intelligence, health, wealth, perseverance, self-confidence, entrepreneurial capability, charisma—and his choices in employing those assets have brought him the fame he sought, but they haven’t engendered the wisdom and conduct a national leader needs to be respected and trusted. His decision to run for president came from his ambition to succeed in a new kind of venture, and, ironically, it was minions in Hillary Clinton’s Illuminati camp who enabled him to do that. Their vote-rigging in the primaries eliminated Senator Bernie Sanders, whose adherents’ votes would have put him in the Oval Office, and the minions’ error in manipulating the presidential election vote count gave the victory they intended to be Clinton’s to Trump instead. But few people know that, so the finger is officially pointed at Russia for interfering in the US electoral process and it is implied that this was done with the collusion of the Trump campaign.

Putting aside the means that actually led to the election outcome, two universal laws that are in constant motion would affect whomever was in the White House, and we speak first about the law of attraction and how it has been affecting the president’s administration. By acting upon his campaign promises, they are satisfying everyone who wants the country to go in the direction his policies would take it. The greater numbers of citizens want to build on the progress the country has made in civil, legal and environmental reforms. The law of attraction is neutral—it simply brings back from the collective consciousness what matches the energy of the peoples’ thoughts, feelings and actions, thereby supplying in accordance with demand, so to say. Because the preponderance of energy is being generated by the larger numbers of the citizenry, this impartial law is responding to their resistance to a proportionately greater extent than to the policies favored by the president and his supporters.

The other law at play pertains to vibrations, and it also is contributing to resistance to the administration’s direction. The vibratory fallout includes legal challenges to the travel ban executive orders and inability to bring proposed healthcare legislation to a vote, the intentions of which your analysts rightfully deem are to promote fear and discrimination and to favor the wealthy, respectively. The low vibrations emitted by those intentions, along with those of the EOs reversing environmental safety measures, are clashing with the higher vibrations prevailing on the planet. Like everything else in existence, intentions are energy vibrating at one frequency or another, and the moment of the two opposing vibratory levels “dancing” passed in the blink of an eye. If the ensuing conflict between the levels isn’t ended by a turnaround in the country’s current direction, it will end when unity is achieved in the planes of lighter energy where Earth is heading.

Now then, more is going on in the Trump administration than those effects of the universal laws. Activity by the president and his staff is afoot to publicly identify and bring to justice members of “the cabal”—Illuminati—within and outside the government. Vibrations support this plan that is of worldwide importance; however, reaction to what in all candor can only be called Trump’s lack of sound judgment in numerous instances has brought into question whether individuals whose assistance is needed will work with him, and this has weakened the plan’s chance of succeeding from “probable” to “possible” in Earth’s energy field of potential. Nevertheless, this is not reason for dismay—success still could come by way of the presidency, but if it doesn’t, it will come via another avenue. The long ages of the Illuminati’s dark reign are ending.

Officials, political analysts and mainstream media in “free press” nations are echoing information disseminated by the Illuminati about Vladimir Putin, who consistently has refused to join forces with them. That is why you hear that he is a cunning ruthless dictator who meddles in other governments’ affairs and is a threat to Europe, put out the “fake news” about Hillary Clinton’s involvement in a pedophile ring and initiated cyberspace warfare. While Putin’s hands may not be pristine, that profile—like all other lies promulgated by the Illuminati—is way off the mark. They know he is one of the major players coordinating efforts to rid the world of their influence; expose their diabolical activities and hold them accountable; and acquire their ill-gotten fortunes and use those funds to end impoverishment, environmental destruction and terrorist groups.

That is a tall order indeed, and the persons involved in this mission are from nations whose histories, cultures, religions, resources and ideologies differ. But their goal is the same—a safer, healthier world where everyone shares in its abundance—and you shall see evidence of their progress as intensifying light reinforces this global undertaking.

We know that at times patience runs thin as you wait to see evidence become apparent and you wonder if people ever can live together in love and peace. Yes, dear ones, they can, they will, and we offer this encouragement. May 1 is Global Love Day, the 14th celebration sponsored by The Love Foundation, which is dedicated to inspiring unconditional love and peace worldwide. Reading the website www.thelovefoundation.com will gladden your hearts.

All light beings in this universe honor your service to the light and support you with the power of unconditional love.